Describes the Live, Learn and Teach program, an eight-day wilderness experience in New Hampshire's White Mountains, designed to develop student teacher relations. It includes six weeks of curriculum-design sessions and a practicum in which teaching teams experiment with new skills and behaviors as they design and carry out an activity-centered and…

Describes a summer course in chemical engineering. Includes discussions of the course program, course goals, student performance, and course faculty. Lists examples of informal experiments which have been used, and prerequisite courses that are required for students to enroll in the course. (CW)

Discusses the chemistry component of a five-week summer program for talented high school juniors and seniors at the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences. Describes the chemistry core, lab component, team projects, and program results. (CW)

Discusses similarities and differences in the use of puppets and computers as teaching tools in the classroom. Teachers' resistance to puppets is discussed, and four new puppet programs are described. (LRW)

Accompanying curriculum renewal efforts in Australia is the need of teachers to increase their repertoire of skills. Strategies supporting the process of change are discussed, including developing a bank of exemplary lessons and a structured environment for testing such lessons. Three examples of school projects are described. (MNS)

Provides a "blueprint" of a curriculum-wide program in reading and writing for high school. Includes a combined reading list for all subject areas, and an assessment of the program as implemented in the author's school. (HTH)

Examples of how various countries participating in the Associated Schools Project are using an interdisciplinary approach to international education are provided. Also describes activities of schools around the world participating in the Associated Schools Project aimed at improving international peace and understanding. (RM)

Describes RESTSIM, an interactive computer simulation program for graduate and upper-level undergraduate management, marketing, and retailing courses, which introduces naive users to simulation as a decision support technique, and provides a vehicle for studying various statistical procedures for evaluating simulation output. (MBR)

With electronic data processing programs emerging in many vocational-technical schools, much confusion as to the role of business education in computer education has developed. The program presently being implemented in Delaware emphasizes computer education from the user's viewpoint--an approach that is most appropriate for the business education…

This essay discusses the effects of technological innovation on instructional innovation. It is noted that the impact of technological innovation in instruction is cushioned by inherently conservative forces in academe, including the incentive-and-reward system that rewards research over teaching as well as the reluctance of many faculty to adopt…

Describes a sixth grade program in which science and mathematics are integrated and emphasis is given to providing students with individual attention. (JR)

Describes an elementary school summer program designed to allow children to develop their fullest potentials for logical thinking and structuring their own knowledge. In particular, the activities of the science center are discussed. (JR)

Describes a two year trial course in curriculum and instruction of science and mathematics at California State College at Bakersfield. The course attempts to unify the two disciplines for the prospective elementary school teacher in terms of theory of learning and strategies of instruction. (JR)

Describes the use of self-instructional materials for teaching dental technology. Training Technology is issued twice yearly as a supplement to Educational Technology Magazine. (GB)